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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Kerry Jones - a Positive Genimate

One of my readers, Kerry Jones, completed the Accentuate the Positive 2016 Challenge and sent it to me in a Word doc. With Kerry's permission I am sharing it here. Congratulations on a beaut year, Kerry.

Accentuate the
Positive
1. An elusive ancestor I found was: David
Culley, my fourth Great Grandfather.

2. A precious family photo I found was:
A photo of my great great
Grandmother, Ellen Crowley. I found it
quite by accident. I went to the website
of the Female Convict Research Centre and there sitting prominently on the site
was Ellen! I was delighted as I have
never seen a photo of her before.

3. An ancestor's grave I found was:
It was actually a photograph of
the grave of my grandmother (who I had never met). Edith Ballard’s grave is in
Queensland and I hope to see it one day.

4. An important vital record I found was: So many! But one of the most
interesting ones that I found was the Apprenticeship of my fourth Great
Grandfather, David Culley. He was
apprenticed to be a plumber in 1803 and later in his life worked at Windsor
Castle.

5. A newly found family member shared: I discovered some new information about my husband’s ancestors through
meeting a new found family member. Her
Great Great Grandmother and my husband’s Great Grandfather were twins.

6. A geneasurprise I received was:
Being contacted by a distant relative
who had done a lot of research into subsequent generations.

8. I made a new genimate who: I am
studying the Diploma of Family History online through the University of
Tasmania and I met two ladies who are also studying it. One of them lives in the next street to
me! We have now met twice and have
formed a nice little support group.

9. A new piece of software I mastered was: Wavepad. I used this to edit an
Oral History interview that I had done.
It was remarkably easy.

10. A social media tool I enjoyed using for genealogy was: Probably
Facebook. There are many different
Facebook groups and reading some of the posts is very interesting.

11. A genealogy conference/seminar/webinar from which I learnt something new
was: A presentation at the Dead Person’s
Society in Melbourne. This was on
Finding Hidden Records and the presenter, Ada Ackerly was excellent.

14. I taught a friend how to: Use
Ancestry.

17. A new genealogy/history book I enjoyed was:
Not a new book, in fact a very old
book was ‘Tasmanian Convicts’ by Alison Alexander. It is very well written and easy to read and
very informative.

20. Another positive I would like to share is ...Learning as much as possible about genealogy is great. Reading blogs, Facebook posts and studying
online all help one’s knowledge.